Sanma Akashiya
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is a Japanese TV comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

  and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 simply known as Sanma. His real name is . His talent agency is Yoshimoto Corporation
Yoshimoto Kogyo
is a major Japanese entertainment conglomerate, with its headquarters based in Osaka. It was founded in 1912 as a traditional theatre, and has since grown to be one of the most influential companies in Japan, employing most of Japan's popular owarai talent, producing and promoting the shows they...

.

Together with Beat Takeshi
Takeshi Kitano
is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...

 and Tamori
Tamori
is a Japanese celebrity. His real name is and the screenname Tamori is an anagram of his surname. He was born on 22 August 1945 in Fukuoka City in Fukuoka Prefecture....

, Sanma is said to be one of the "Big Three" tarento
Tarento
is a Japanese rendering of the English word "talent" and is used as a catch-all term for mass media personalities who regularly appear on television. Detractors of the phenomenon have referred to it in an English sense as "famous just for being famous" because many that fall into this career line...

 of Japan. Sanma's nickname is . He is known for his ability to endlessly carry a conversation. His protruding front teeth are often ridiculed even by himself.

Personal life

Akashiya was once married to actress Shinobu Ōtake. Their daughter, Imalu, is an actress, model, and singer.

TV programs

  • Koi no Karasawagi (Much Ado About Love) (Nippon TV)
  • Odoru Sanma Goten (Nippon TV)
  • Sanma-no Super Karakuri TV (TBS
    Tokyo Broadcasting System
    , TBS Holdings, Inc. or TBSHD, is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan. It is a parent company of a television network named and radio network named ....

    )
  • Sanma no Manma (Kansai TV)
  • Tūkai! Akashiya TV (Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBS TV)
    Mainichi Broadcasting System
    is a broadcasting station in Osaka, Japan, affiliated with Japan Radio Network , National Radio Network , Japan News Network and TBS Network, serving in the Kansai region. MBS is also one of the major stockholders of Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc...

    )
  • Honmadekka!? TV (Fuji TV)
  • Appare! Sanma Daikyōju (Fuji TV)
  • Hatachi no Koibito (TBS)
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